6 Nov 2017 Bitcoin's price has risen by more than 600% this year, routinely setting new all-time highs along the way. But timing is everything: bitcoin has also dropped by double-digit percentages at times this year, in what some economists would consider a financial crisis if it happened to the value of a sovereign

17 Dec 2017 It goes as follows. A boy asks his Bitcoin-investing father for $10.00 worth of currency. What I hope to lay out is an historical review of Bitcoin's three largest bubbles, one in 2011 and two in 2013. These are the three times Bitcoin's price has “gone parabolic,” and it did crash each time. Yet these crashes